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I have been reading a number of DUI posts here, and I need your opinions on my own and how screwed I am =[ I think it is a little unique. Bear with me, I understand how stupid it was of me and it has haunted me for the last 5 years of my life. I am literally shaking as I type this.
When I was 16 (I am 21 now), me and two of my best friends wanted to try alcohol, before this, I had only ever taken sips of alcohol. We got some beers and I snuck out of the house late at night, I grabbed my parent's car keys. We came to my parent's car about 100-150feet from my house, got in the car, and I put the keys in the ignition (which now made it a legal issue) to turn on the heater as it was freezing cold. We turned on the car roof lights so we could see. The car was parked on the side of the road, and a police officer saw us and came to us. He called my friend's mom to pick him up and took me home, he wrote something on a piece of paper and told my parents someone would contact us later. We hired a lawyer who said he would speak with the judge about this, as at the time, I was a 4.0 student and very involved in my community through various volunteering work. The lawyer then told us that they declined to pursue anything and are dropping the matter, I am not sure if this is due to the police officer acknowledging that we were not driving. However, California DMV was required to suspend my license as my BAC was over 0.01 (it was 0.06). So in my DMV record, it does mention this incident. Essentially, I have nothing criminal, no arrests, no court appearances, no convictions or charges brought against me. I tried to contact the court system with the help of my parents, to see what records exist and we could not find any mention of this event ever occurring.
Yes, I know how stupid I was, I did learn from my mistake and have not caused any sort of trouble since then. By telling this story, I am not trying to excuse or lessen the severity of my mistake. I am not sure how to talk about this on applications, or if I have to mention it, and if I do, I feel like the adcoms would just laugh in my face and think I'm lying, given the ridiculousness of the situation I put myself in.
I am just really sad that I have spent years going to school, doing research, holding down odd jobs and volunteering, which has taken up every day from early morning to late at night, for years. My current stats are competitive for U.S MD (can't know for certain till I take the MCAT however).
Replace every I with 'my friend'.
When I was 16 (I am 21 now), me and two of my best friends wanted to try alcohol, before this, I had only ever taken sips of alcohol. We got some beers and I snuck out of the house late at night, I grabbed my parent's car keys. We came to my parent's car about 100-150feet from my house, got in the car, and I put the keys in the ignition (which now made it a legal issue) to turn on the heater as it was freezing cold. We turned on the car roof lights so we could see. The car was parked on the side of the road, and a police officer saw us and came to us. He called my friend's mom to pick him up and took me home, he wrote something on a piece of paper and told my parents someone would contact us later. We hired a lawyer who said he would speak with the judge about this, as at the time, I was a 4.0 student and very involved in my community through various volunteering work. The lawyer then told us that they declined to pursue anything and are dropping the matter, I am not sure if this is due to the police officer acknowledging that we were not driving. However, California DMV was required to suspend my license as my BAC was over 0.01 (it was 0.06). So in my DMV record, it does mention this incident. Essentially, I have nothing criminal, no arrests, no court appearances, no convictions or charges brought against me. I tried to contact the court system with the help of my parents, to see what records exist and we could not find any mention of this event ever occurring.
Yes, I know how stupid I was, I did learn from my mistake and have not caused any sort of trouble since then. By telling this story, I am not trying to excuse or lessen the severity of my mistake. I am not sure how to talk about this on applications, or if I have to mention it, and if I do, I feel like the adcoms would just laugh in my face and think I'm lying, given the ridiculousness of the situation I put myself in.
I am just really sad that I have spent years going to school, doing research, holding down odd jobs and volunteering, which has taken up every day from early morning to late at night, for years. My current stats are competitive for U.S MD (can't know for certain till I take the MCAT however).
Replace every I with 'my friend'.
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